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Fracking piece further evidence in the case for a ban

Thank you for your courageous reporting on the political barriers to banning extreme oil and gas extraction like fracking in Colorado. Joel Dyer’s incisive in-depth piece “Who killed the vote on fracking?” [Cover story, Oct. 2] clearly illuminates that technological limitations are not the problem; rather, entrenched political and corporate interests keep millions of Coloradans from enjoying the clean, renewable energy

future that we deserve. As the first national organization to call for a ban on fracking, Food & Water Watch will continue to stand proudly shoulder-toshoulder with grassroots groups like Frack Free Colorado, Our Longmont and Citizens for a Healthy Fort Collins. We are committed to educating and helping to mobilize Coloradans to build the power to hold our elected officials accountable so that we can pass local ballot measures and take the other actions needed to protect our health,

safety and property from fracking. Last month, Food & Water Watch published a report, “The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking,” that surveys the more than 150 studies from the past three years that provide the irrefutable scientific evidence that fracking is so inherently dangerous it cannot be regulated. Dyer’s exposé drives home the sad fact that those with the vision for a sustainable, fossil fuel-free future are up against forsee LETTERS Page 8

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Highroad Buy local beer, books… and why not seafood? by Jim Hightower

n case you don’t have enough to worry about, consider “early mortality syndrome.” Sounds gruesomely lethal, doesn’t it? Luckily, this is not a human disease, nor has it struck America — but it affects us anyway. EMS is a new bacterial outbreak that’s been devastating Thailand’s shrimp farming industry. Three troubling points: Shrimp is by far America’s most consumed seafood, the vast majority of it comes from foreign waters, and Thailand

supplies most of that. To combat the disease, Thailand’s shrimp farms have been dumping untold volumes of antibiotics into their ponds — so we’re consuming the antibiotics that the imported shrimp consumed. But you might assume that, surely, our government inspects those boatloads of frozen crustaceans and rejects those too tainted to eat. Well… sort of… barely… not really. Remember, corporate lobbyists and screeching anti-government politicos don’t like government regulation, so less than one-half of one percent of the tons of foreign-produced shrimp coming into the U.S. is inspected. Fishier yet, even though our country is blessed to have three huge and abundant oceans around us, 90 percent of the seafood we eat comes from abroad. And less than 2 percent of that ridiculous volume gets inspected. Indeed, that serving of imported seafood on your

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plate has traveled an average of 5,475 miles to reach you. And a third of the wild seafood we import has a most unappetizing acronym attached to it: IUU — or Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated. Meanwhile, America’s fishing families are being left out and shortchanged in our own market. Just as we’ve done with beer, books and broccoli, America needs a locavore movement to enrich environmental and human health with local, sustainable seafood. For more information contact Institute for Fisheries Resources at www.ifrfish.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 16, 2014 7

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oody Allen once said path of business as usual, that the global that “more than any time economy will collapse and the Earth’s in history, mankind faces human population will start to die off by a crossroads. One path 2030. The two major parties represent leads to despair and business as usual. utter hopelessness, the other to total The Democrats and Republicans are extinction. Let us pray that we have the partners in genocide. Together, they wage wisdom to choose correctly.” a never-ending war against humanity. Our reliance upon fossil fuels has Since the end of World War II, the U.S. allowed human impact to overshoot the has launched illegal military attacks long-term carrying capacity of our enviagainst at least 69 foreign countries, murronment. Recent studies by NASA and dering millions of people. These undeMIT show we are rapidly approaching a clared wars of aggression are always sold perfect storm of converging ecological to the public on a foundation of lies. Since catastrophes. the U.S. government murdered 3,000 of Climate change is happening now as its own people in 2001, the big lie of 9/11 a result of human industrial activity. has been used as a false justification for a Petrochemical agriculture threatens our fake “war on terror.” health, food security and the environFortunately, the Green Party has an ment. The livestock industry contributes excellent 1,000-point platform for peace, to global warming, land degradation and justice, environmental sustainability and democratic reform. air and water polluIf we could fully tion. Hydraulic implement our fracturing presents excellent platform a critical threat to by, let’s say, 1970, we our water supply. WILL just might be able to The Earth is now NEVER HAVE MEANINGFUL save the world. And experiencing the ELECTIONS WITH FAIR the good news is Sixth Mass REPRESENTATION IN that at our current Extinction of animal species due to rate of development, GOVERNMENT UNLESS habitat destruction the Greens are well AND UNTIL WE ELECT caused by human on our way to CONGRESS AND OUR overpopulation and becoming the domiSTATE LEGISLATURES BY over-consumption. nant political party A PARTY LIST SYSTEM The worldwide in the United States OF PROPORTIONAL population of vertesometime within the brate species has next two or three REPRESENTATION. declined by 52 permillion years. cent since 1970. The Green This includes Party has been runmammals, birds, ning candidates for reptiles and fish. public offices in the United States since Meanwhile, the Earth’s human popu- 1985 and in Colorado since 1994. But lation has grown from one billion in we still haven’t elected a single Green 1804 to two billion in 1927, three billion Party member to Congress. in 1960 and more than seven billion The Green Party has run candidates today. in at least 96 different countries. The Overpopulation is a product of the Global Greens website reported that as number of people multiplied by their per of December of 2013, Green Party capita consumption and waste producmembers held 314 seats in national partion. liaments in 30 countries around the The World Wildlife Foundation’s world and 46 seats in the European “Living Planet Report” estimates that Parliament. More than 95 percent of human ecological impact now exceeds these members of parliament were electthe Earth’s carrying capacity by 50 pered by proportional representation, mostly cent. If the average person on Earth con- under party list election systems. sumed as much as the average American, Proportional representation refers to votthe Earth could not support more than ing systems used throughout Europe and one and a half billion people. A recent Latin America under which representastudy by MIT on the limits of growth see GUEST COLUMN Page 11 concluded that if we continue on the

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midable opponents. As a third generation Coloradan and Western Region Director for Food & Water Watch, I implore everyone who cares about the health and renewable energy future of this state to join the call for a ban on this dangerous, irresponsible practice. Sam Schabacker/Western Region Director for Food & Water Watch

Ballot initiative story shows larger forces at work

Hats off to Dyer et al, their report [Re: “Who killed the anti-fracking ballot measures?” Cover story, Oct. 2], more than any single report I have read, connects the dots (if the dots are to be believed) — in meaningful ways that I have not seen connected before (I am sure there are other sides — maybe they will speak up?). It lays bare the Colorado political landscape — the players; the motives; the strategies; the stakes; the relationships; the whens, hows and whys; etc. and explains “how we got here” with more credibility than “pseudo-news babble” put out by our monolithic city newspapers, TV and radio stations that mostly report all the same news bytes (yes, the real news in them is that small) from the same source and perspective. On the one hand, it is frightening that so much power is in the hands of so few — that is always dangerous and is not democratic (though we complain less when our horses are winning just like we have greater tolerance when it is our religion being feted) — and there is slight respite in that there appears to be some semblance of benevolent intent mixed in with the greed and need to have it my/our way.

letters This investigative report provides great insight into the workings (behind the scenes) of Colorado politics; political parties; environmental NGOs; oil, gas and coal companies; utilities; and the groups charged with regulating them (utilities and extractive industries). It makes clear the puzzle of why these highly respected environmental groups have been touting natural gas, not restoring the PTC [Production Tax Credit] or increasing RPS [Renewable Portfolio Standard] goals in many states that truly promote wind and solar. It is their funding source of course. If this type of investigative reporting were the norm, it might serve to bring out 80-90 percent of our population voting with insightful knowledge on real issues and real people, not the slogans, sound bytes and deliberately misleading political garbage that passes for “political campaigns,” we might vote knowing the people under the artfully crafted PR masks, how they will vote on real issues not the vague “ideals,” which leaves the backroom deals so wide open and hidden from public view. So Polis, you are off the hook this time. It is clear that all this “for the people” stuff was just a ruse. You play on a bigger playing field and “we the people” appeared to be a convenient prop at the time. Sorry it got so messy trying to represent us. Robi Robichaud/Boulder

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he beheading in Moore, Okla., last month brought it all back. She wasn’t a raving beauty, just a friendly, freckle-faced girl with a warm grin and a presence that was unforgettable. She would make you feel good the second she walked into a room. She had a great sense of humor. She was a terrific reporter. She was the sweetest girl I ever met. When she worked at the Colorado Daily in the mid-1960s we knew her as Quita Perelli-Minetti. The girl whose byline barely fit on a single line of type and whose first name was routinely mispronounced. “Quita like a banana,” she used to say with a grin. Her family owned a winery in California. I think half the boys in the news room had a crush on her. I know I did, but I never asked her out; she had a boyfriend. The lucky guy was named Rich Hague. He was studying mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. They were made for each other. Quita and Rich got married, and Rich landed a job with Utah International Company, a big construction and mining company. The job eventually took them to San Francisco. They rented an apartment near Telegraph Hill. Quita got a job with the Industrial City Press, a newspaper in South San Francisco. The year was 1973. On the evening of Oct. 20, they decided to take an after-dinner walk. That’s when they met the Death Angels. The Death Angels were a racist murder cult, which had been spawned by followers of the Black Muslim movement. It had adherents in a number of California cities. The San Francisco group consisted of several men employed by or associated with a moving, storage and used furniture business named Black Self-Help. They held their meetings in a large loft above the business. They would ultimately kill at least 14 people and attack eight others during a reign of terror that became known as the Zebra murders (after the code name for a police radio channel). On the night of Oct. 20, 1973 three members of the group were cruising San Francisco streets in a white Dodge

van looking for white people to kill. Their names were Jessie Lee Cooks, Larry Craig Green and Anthony Cornelius Harris. The van belonged to Green. At 6 p.m. they tried to kidnap three children from a residential neighborhood. Fortunately, the kids managed to break free and run away. Cooks and Green (Harris claimed he was an unwilling accomplice) were particularly interested in children and women, because killing children and women would make it easier for them to “earn their wings.” This is how crime writer Clark Howard described the process of “earning their wings” in his 1979 book Zebra: The True Account of 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco: “Death Angel wings were awarded to each man who killed four white children, five white women, or nine white men. “Upon completion of the required quota, a new member’s photograph was taken and a pair of black wings were drawn extending from the neck. The photo was mounted on a board along with pictures of other successful candidates, and the board was displayed on an easel at the loft meetings. At that time, there were 15 accredited Death Angels in California. To achieve their collective membership, they had already quietly killed throughout the state 135 white men, 75 white women, 60 white children — or enough of a combination thereof to give each of them his required four, five, or nine credits… All the known suspects in the killings had been associated with the Black Muslim movement.” Quita and Rich took their walk at 9:30 p.m. They were walking west on the south side of Chestnut Street, the street on which they lived, when they encountered Cooks, Green and Harris. The three had parked Green’s van on the North side of the street. Cooks and Green then positioned themselves on opposite sides of the sidewalk on the south side of the street. When Quita and Rich tried to walk between them, they grabbed Rich and pointed a gun at him. Rich told Quita to run, but Cooks put the gun at Rich’s head and said he would kill him if she didn’t stop. She did. see DANISH PLAN Page 12

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for sheriff of Boulder County this November, as stated in the Boulder Weekly Voters Guide published Oct. 9. I am also running, as a write-in candidate. If you were to write in “Mickey Mouse” for sheriff this November, that vote would not be counted. To have my name certified to be counted, I had to register with my chosen party, “unaffiliated” and declare my intention to run by January 2 of this year with the Secretary of State’s office. At least 96 days before the election date, I had to submit an affidavit and fingerprints for an FBI background check with the County Clerk and Recorder’s office. To have my name appear on the ballot required collecting 750 valididated, notarized signatures in an eight-week period starting May 15th, which I fell short of. My commendation to Kai Abelkis for placing his name on the ballot as an unaffiliated candidate for County Commissioner. There are many obstacles to participating in politics, but the Clerk’s office does acknowledge the existence of writein candidates by only providing a checkbox and line if a valid write-in candidate is available for that office. I have spoken with the Boulder Weekly and they are certainly aware of my candidacy, to claim that no one else is running is incorrect. Sample ballots are available online at bouldercounty.org/elections, where Boulder residents will see a single blank line among the county candidates, for the single person running as a write-in candidate for a county seat. Contact and campaign finance information for all Colorado candidates is available from the Secretary of State at sos.state.co.us.

The non-partisan League of Women Voters requests and publishes statements from all valid candidates, at vote411.org. I participated in a county candidates forum on Oct. 11, posted at http://news. kgnu.org/2014/10/league-of-womenvoters-candidate-forum and was reported on the same day by Longmont CallTimes [sic] reporter John Fryar. That said, I am not running “against” incumbent candidate Sheriff Joe Pelle. He is a good man and an able administrator, who has devoted his career to serving Boulder County. But I am running for sheriff, and as a patriotic mathematician practiced in non-violent conflict resolution, I am offering a genuine alternative to conventional law-enforcement. If you would like to know more my campaign website is sheriffoflove.org. My Name is Toby Fernsler, and my message is love. Toby Fernsler/via Internet

Domenico’s inaction on hunting should cost her election

We are disappointed to see BW endorse Cindy Domenico for county commissioner [Re: Vote Guide, Oct. 9]. Sugar Loaf residents have for years been frustrated and outraged by commissioner Domenico’s unwillingness to simply follow the law. County Resolution 80-52 (No Discharge of Firearms) was enacted 34 years ago “to promote the public health, safety and welfare.” The resolution closes a four-and-a-half square-mile area of see LETTERS Page 13

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Quita and Rich were both pushed into the van and forced to lie on the floor. As Green drove away, Cooks tied their hands and then beat Rich unconscious with a club. Green drove to a dark industrial area near some railroad tracks and parked. He grabbed Quita by the hair and pulled her out of the van. He also grabbed a machete he had in the van. He dragged Quita about 20 feet from the van, threw her to the ground and repeatedly hacked into her throat with the machete. When he stopped, her head was almost completely severed from her body. Then Cooks pulled the unconscious Rich from the van, took the machete from Green and repeatedly slashed Rich’s head and neck. Eventually he decided Rich was dead and the killers drove off. Amazingly, Rich wasn’t dead.

Although badly mutilated, he managed to stagger to a street with his hands still tied, where a couple out for a drive spotted him and took him to a police station. Quita’s murder was the first of the 14 Zebra killings in San Francisco. The crime wave didn’t stop until Harris ratted out Cooks and Green along with several other members of the cult. After a year-long trial, Green, Cooks and two others involved in subsequent Death Angel killings were convicted and sentenced to life in prison. As of now they’re still in prison, but eligible for parole. Harris went free; he received immunity in exchange for his testimony. Rich also testified at the trial. Opponents of the death penalty sometimes argue that life in prison is a worse penalty than execution. They say it is living death. Good. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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densely populated, highly recreated neighborhoods to hunting with firearms. The plain language of the authorizing statute defines “firearms” as: “any pistol, revolver, rifle or other weapon of any description from which any shot, projectile, or bullet may be discharged.” (C.R.S. 30-15-301). Clearly hunting with bows and arrows is unambiguously included under the definition. Yet, the commissioners have refused to direct inclusion of bow hunting in the closure. Residents are disgusted with the continuing wounding and crippling of half-tame deer in our community. As a benchmark, the Michigan Department of Resources records a 58 percent wound/cripple rate. Bow hunting is present here even on school days for the 53 days open to this cruel “sport” this year. Of note, our neighborhood is bookended by Betasso Preserve and Sugarloaf Mountain Open Space, where even carrying a bow is against the law and subject to a $300 fine. Jefferson County enforces the complete definition of firearms in the authorizing statute over much larger expanses of land. Why does this continue where we live? Citizens submitted a petition with 86 signatures asking for the Commissioners to: 1) direct exclusion of bows and arrows as written in the statute definition of firearms and 2) request a hearing on expanding the closure to contiguous, now heavily populated subdivisions. This expansion of an additional few square miles would also significantly facilitate the enforcement of the closure. Why shouldn’t these qualifying neighborhoods be afforded the same protections as the original resolution area? For the past three years, the commission, chaired by Ms. Domenico, has stalled, postponed, waffled, delayed and done nothing except consult with the sheriff and Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials behind closed doors. These agency representatives lobby to keep the status quo, though hunters have hundreds of thousands of square miles in which to hunt. These are the organizations with which Ms. Domenico boasts about collaborating. Collaboration might more accurately be defined as capitulation and appeasement of state and county agencies to the detriment of the rule of law and citizen safety in our neighborhoods. Anita Moss/Boulder

Why Ballot Measure 2A will impact you and me

I am a student, a female, a Hill resident, a Greek, a student leader, a roommate, a neighbor, and a resident of Boulder. I feel a special connection to one Boulder Weekly

letters measure in particular that we will see on the ballot this November. This measure won’t change the world; it won’t alter the political landscape or divide the population. But it will make you and me safer. The buzz about 2A is that it will raise taxes by a mere .3 percent, and it will promote arts, community, and culture. It will fund so many projects that will make the already incredible City of Boulder that much more remarkable and different from other places in the United States. These are all great strides forward, but I think the biggest effect will come from the increased lighting. Although some Hill residents decry student behaviors on the Hill come Friday and Saturday night, you can’t argue that safety for an at-risk group that makes up one-third of the population of Boulder isn’t important. Some of the streets that we walk every night are downright dangerous. Yes, arts, community and culture will make this city great, but safety will as well. The lights will deter crime in the areas of the Hill, the Boulder Creek Path and Chautauqua— areas that students—and residents—frequent daily. For any Hill residents concerned that the lighting will shine in their windows and keep them from getting sleep, but in fact the lights will be “pedestrian height” and their brightness will be adjustable by the City We must ask ourselves, is a 3 cent increase in tax on this $10 purchase worth the change that will result? I, along with many of my peers, belong to a modern type of political party: I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I am not the type of person who welcomes a tax increase with open arms, but when it is necessary and can benefit all members of a community for such a small cost, it simply makes sense. Recently I read that those who do feel apprehensive seem to think that private organizations should be funding these projects. I attend a public university, and I believe that safety is a matter of public interest, not only for the students, but also for the general population as a whole. So this November, along with many other residents of Boulder, I’m asking that you make the choice that simply makes sense, and vote yes on 2A. Those 3 pennies on your $10 purchase could be pennies that would otherwise slip under your couch cushions or fall out of your wallet as you pay for parking on a crowded Boulder street. As a student, a female, a Hill resident, a Greek, a student leader, a roommate, a neighbor, and a resident of Boulder, I will support 2A, and I hope that you will too. Eileen Sherman, Director of City & Neighborhood Relations, University of Colorado Student Government/Boulder

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n United States Senator: Mark Udall* n Representative to the 114th U.S. Congress – District 2: Jared Polis* n Representative to the 114th U.S. Congress – District 4: Vic Meyers n Governor/Lieutenant Governor: Harry Hempy/Scott Olson n Secretary of State: Joe Neguse n State Treasurer: Walker Stapleton n Attorney General: Don Quick n Regent of the University of Colorado – Congressional District 2: Linda Shoemaker n State Senate – District 16: Jeanne Nicholson n State Representative District 10: Dickey Lee Hullinghorst n State Representative District 11: Jonathan Singer n State Representative District 12: Mike Foote n State Representative District 13: KC Becker n State Representative District 33: Dianne Primavera n District O Regional Transportation District Director: Chuck Sisk n County Commissioner – District 3: Cindy Domenico n County Clerk & Recorder: Ralph Shnelvar n County Assessor: Jerry Roberts n County Treasurer: Paul Weissmann n County Sherriff: Joseph K. Pelle n County Surveyor: Lee Stadele n County Coroner: Emma Hall n City of Louisville City Council Person Ward I: Chris Leh n Town of Superior – Mayor: Clint Folsom n Town of Superior – Trustee: Sandy Pennington, Rita Dozal, Chris Hanson n State Supreme Court Justice Brian D. Boatright: Retain n State Supreme Court Justice Monica M. Márquez: Retain n Court of Appeals Judge Terry Fox: Retain n Court of Appeals Judge Alan M. Loeb: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Ingrid S. Bakke: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Maria E. Berkenkotter: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Patrick Butler: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Judith L. LaBuda: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Andrew Ross Macdonald: Retain n Boulder County Judge David Archuleta: Retain n Boulder County Judge Noel E. Blum: Do not retain n Boulder County Judge Karolyn Moore: Retain n Boulder County Judge Norma A. Sierra: Retain n Colorado State Amendment 67: No n Colorado State Amendment 68: No n Colorado Proposition 104: Yes n Colorado Proposition 105: Yes n Boulder County Ballot Issue 1A – County-wide Flood Recovery Sales and Use Tax: Yes n Boulder County Ballot Issue 1B – Human Services Safety Net Mill Levy Extension: Yes n City of Boulder Ballot Issue No. 2A – Temporary Tax Increase for Community, Culture, and Safety: Yes n City of Boulder Ballot Question 2B – City Council Executive Session Related to Boulder’s Electric Utility: No n City of Boulder Ballot Question 2C – Affirming the City’s Right to Provide Telecommunication Services: Yes n City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2A – Public Safety Mill Levy: Yes n City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2B – Recreation Bond and Mill Levy: No n City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2C – Retail Marijuana and Retail Marijuana Products Excise Tax: Yes n City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2D – Excise Tax to Fund Clean Energy Initiative: Yes n City of Longmont Ballot Issue 2A (street system maintenance): Yes n Town of Lyons Ballot Issue 2A (applying city sales taxes to recreational marijuana sales): Yes n Boulder Valley School District RE-2 Ballot Issue 3A: Yes n North Metro Fire District Ballot Issue 4A: Yes n Coal Creek Canyon Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 4B: Yes n Lyons Regional Library District Ballot Issue 4C (allowing Lyons to raise taxes for a new library): Yes n Sunshine Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 2A: Yes Boulder Weekly

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Businesses in the flood-devastated town of Lyons strip down for a fundraiser calendar by Caitlin Rockett

n January, three months after the nude calendars have become a common waters of the North and South St. way for groups to raise money. For a Vrain creeks flooded their banks decade the Vail Valley Charitable Fund and overwhelmed the Town of promoted the Vail Undressed Calendar, Lyons, physical therapist Bronwyn which benefited people living or working Muldoon’s business was still struggling in Eagle County who are struggling in the wake of 2013’s historic flooding. financially due to a medical crisis. “I talked to other businesses in town Photographs for these calendars never and it was the same thing — we were included full frontal nudity and always back in town, but we weren’t back to norfeatured Vail residents doing something mal,” says Muldoon, owner of Lyons they love — cycling, skiing or engaged in Physical Therapy. “I wanted to fundraise, something related to their occupation. but I also wanted to promote business and This is the tactic that Muldoon at the same time I wanted to have fun employed for the Lyons calendar. In doing it.” total, 16 businesses are represented in And one morning Bronwyn Muldoon the 15-month calendar. while she was running, Each “model” is photothe idea came her: graphed doing what she’d organize an “au they love from chironaturale” calendar — practics to Pilates to local folks in the nude playing violin. Muldoon initially — with proceeds approached health going to families and businesses about the businesses still strugidea and was met with gling to rebuild. resounding support. “You know how The calendar ended up sometimes your brain with eight pictures repjust goes,” Muldoon resenting health and says of the flow of wellness businesses in thoughts that often In total, 16 businesses are repredeluge the mind dur- sented in the 15-month “Lyons Lyons. Muldoon and Businesses Bare All” calendar. ing a run. “I don’t her husband took the know how it came to majority of the picme but I thought, wow, this is sometures. thing that would catch someone’s eye, Muldoon wanted the calendar to and I thought it would be fun, too — contain scenes that showed devastation and it was.” from the flood. Two pictures show resiAs a physical therapist, Muldoon dents standing in front of their homes as gets the opportunity to hear many of her they are being lifted to meet new flood patients speak of their struggles poststandards. flood. Muldoon’s own contribution to the “I hear their stories and…” she paus- calendar is a picture of her running — a es for a moment. “You just cry for them snowflake covering her left breast — inside because you don’t know how to past the crumpled shelter at Meadow o help them.” Park, a light dusting of snow covering But Muldoon knew she had to do the scenery behind her. something. Muldoon says calendars can be pur“My original thought was to pitch chased for $30 each at four locations in [the idea of a nude calendar] to the Lyons — The Stone Cup, The Barking health and wellness [businesses in Dog, Lyons ReRuns and The White Lion. Lyons] because we’re all caregivers, and A full $20 from each calendar purthat’s what the community still needs is chased goes to the Lyons Community caregivers,” says Muldoon. Foundation who then gives the money She ran the idea past her sisters and to Lyons Emergency Assistance then her husband, who gave his blessing Funding. From there, checks will be for Muldoon to strip down in the name written to residents who have applied to of rebuilding their town. the foundation for flood assistance. “Once I got their backing ... I When asked about how they deterthought, OK, this isn’t such a crazy mined the cost of the calendars, idea,” Muldoon says. Muldoon responds, “Well, we thought, And really, it’s not such a crazy idea. we are naked.” Across the country, tasteful, humorous Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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news 2C or not 2C isn’t the question Should Boulder follow Longmont’s lead and provide a public option for faster, more affordable Internet? by Gavin Dahl

ave you moved to Taylor Wells works on Longmont yet?” inserting the cable course underground. Susan Wisecup, business manager for Longmont Power and Communications, is really asking. She’s ecstatic about the century-old public utility in Longmont building Colorado’s most cutting-edge Internet project. With upload and download speeds of 1 gigabit per second for around $50 per month, soon Longmont residents will be able to download entire HD movies in 10 seconds while paying the best price in the state. Construction began in August and customers can begin signing up for Longmont’s new service in November. The utility plans to connect 25 percent of the city within a year and all Cowles acknowledges local businesses of Longmont by 2017. may decide to move north because “There was no formal ribbon-cutthey’re simply not able to get comparating, just get the equipment in and get ble speeds at any cost here. to work,” says Scott Rochat, the proj“It would be a rational choice for ect’s marketing director. Lighting up them,” Cowles concedes. “It costs four Colorado with globally times more for upload competitive Internet speeds that are one-hunspeeds makes the state dredth that fast.” more attractive, he says, Boulder Chamber of but he doesn’t think Commerce Public Affairs most people compreDirector Angelique hend what a gig means. Espinoza concurs that “We talk about movrelocating from Boulder ing at the speed of your to Longmont is a conlife, as much speed as ceivable choice businesses you need,” Rochat says. may make in the coming Longmont is deployyears. That’s why she and ing fiber optics, bundles the Chamber are leading of transparent fiber made of glass or a low-key coalition of local business and plastic about as thick as a human hair, public interest groups supporting ballot issue 2C, which seeks to affirm the City that transmit information with expoof Boulder’s right to be proactive about nentially more bandwidth than wire improving Internet access within city cables. In a society where commerce, limits. entertainment and democracy require “The point is,” Espinoza says, “we’re increasingly more robust communicain competition to attract and retain the tion systems, Rochat says, Longmont’s highest quality employers and the highnew fiber network will be “fast enough that you should never have to worry est quality talent.” about how fast it is.” Longmont is now mentioned in the That raises questions about whether same sentence as Chattanooga, Tenn., Boulder and Longmont will find themwhich offers gigabit speeds at low cost selves in a digital arms race. to all homes and businesses. Ken Hays, Boulder City Councilman Macon director of the Enterprise Center there, Boulder Weekly

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is tasked with generating new gigs in “Gig City.” “You don’t really know what you have until you leave and you experience what they have in other places,” he says. “One startup team spent the whole summer here, and then they went back home to Florida. In six months, they were back in Chattanooga and they still are today because they had gotten so addicted to fast broadband.” Boulder’s ballot issue seeks an exemption to one particular state law: the controversial Senate Bill 152, passed in 2005 and sponsored by Jennifer Viega (D-Denver), which restricted public agency involvement in the development of telecommunications services. Press coverage at the time focused on local governments wanting to provide free public Wi-Fi and the industry view that public financing was supposedly unfair competition. A decade later, incumbent providers are offering gigabit speed to just tens of thousands of Coloradans in what CenturyLink refers to as “select areas.” Advocates of 2C and measures like it argue that local governments should be able to act on behalf of constituents when Internet service providers cite low return on investment as a barrier to network upgrades. Comcast’s Cindy Parsons claims

they have spent billions on their network in Colorado and told BW, “We’ll continue to invest.” Parsons says of their download speeds that “all residential customers across Colorado currently have access to 105 megabits per second in Comcast serviceable areas.” As the first public provider in the state, Longmont is touting download speeds 10 times faster and upload speeds 100 times faster. Local officials like Yuma County Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Darlene Carpio say the lack of investment from the private sector has hurt their communities. “We just don’t have what we need here — the speeds, affordability, reliability,” she says. “The first hurdle is that Senate Bill 152 precludes us from being able to consider all options.” So Yuma County, and the county seat city of Wray, like Boulder, are sponsoring ballot questions to let their constituents vote to remove that hurdle. They’re all following Longmont’s lead. Initially in 2009, the telecom industry defeated Longmont’s first attempt to opt out of SB152, spending an unprecedented amount of money to convince voters to oppose the effort. The city can’t spend campaign funds or lobby in favor of ballot issues. By 2011, despite well-funded opposition, 61 percent of voters supported their city’s right to make local Internet choices. Rochat says the question on people’s minds had become “When do I get my gig?” In 2013, Centennial tested the waters, but with a limited exemption that does not allow the city to provide Internet service directly, only through public-private partnerships utilizing city-owned resources. Seventy-six percent of residents voted yes. “Seventy-six percent voter approval was amazing. We were very excited,” says Allison Wittern, Centennial public information manager. This past April, 74 percent of See INTERNET Page 18

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Montrose voters approved a measure SB152.” modeled on Longmont’s full exemption In Boulder, there are 85 to 100 miles language. of existing fiber infrastructure currently “I think a 3-to-1 vote, like we saw, used by Boulder Valley School District, sends a message,” says Montrose the city, the University of Colorado and Director of Innovation and Community the federal laboratories, according to Engagement Virgil Turner. Cowles. Legislatures in nearly half of all U.S. “The question really is how this states have passed laws like SB152 limexisting asset can serve the community iting local telecommunications authority. more widely,” he says. “That’s what the Thanks to a lack of public oversight and ballot initiative is about, to get the one merger after another, phone and authority of residents here to expand cable providers enjoy virtual duopolies in Doug Christie is feeding countless markets. cable through the neighborhood in Longmont. “Comcast and CenturyLink — that’s it right now,” Wittern says. “Let’s allow other people to come in and increase the competition. That’s going to improve the service and lower the cost.” The market power of being the only phone or cable company available in an area means corporations are operating in “harvesting mode,” scholar Susan Crawford writes in her book Captive Audience. It is common for shareholder-driven giants to invest less than 15 percent of revenue reaped from subscribers back into improving their networks. The problem out West, Turner explains, is the infrastructure used by Charter Communications, their cable provider. Copper, which was first installed in the 1930s for the telephone system and then in the 1970s with the cable system, has now reached the end of its usefulness to society. But Montrose had no leverage to insist broadband in a new direction. The Charter meet the needs of local resispeeds that are available from existing dents. providers are too slow and too costly.” “As we looked at making a big Boulder’s ballot language goes furchange, the incumbents seemed to be ther than the partial exemption passed standing in our way, protected by this in Centennial. Like Montrose, Boulder state law,” Turner says. “Say we wanted is following the Longmont model and to build out a carrier-neutral location on asking voters to approve a full exempcity property where we could invite all tion to SB152. the providers in and they could take a While nonprofit policy research handoff to better aggregate supply into organization Boulder Tomorrow is not our community, for the city to be able to opposing the ballot measure, Executive partner with a local provider that wants Director Dan Powers wonders why the to use city-owned infrastructure — all city explicitly gives itself the option to of those things are prohibited by operate municipal Internet service. 18 October 16, 2014

“If there is really no intention to do so, why is this language necessary?” he asks. Espinoza says she has heard this skepticism from folks who are frustrated about the power utility and are concerned this is just one more thing the city wants to take over. “This is an entirely different matter. I don’t think it’s a parallel situation at all,” she says. “What the language does is exempt us entirely from SB152. I don’t see a realistic Susan France path to the city providing municipal broadband in any large way in the immediate future.” “If I were living in Boulder, I would be clamoring for it, absolutely,” says Vic Ahmed, the founder of Innovation Pavilion, a tech incubator that has supported 85 companies in Centennial. However, he prefers his city’s public-private partnership approach to Longmont’s public option. “Whenever a city goes out and asks for, bids for something like this, as Centennial is doing, not everybody is going to be awarded the contract,” Ahmed says. “So that puts pressure on all the companies in the area, competitive pressure. This will make a huge difference to the price point.” While Longmont will soon offer great prices for world-class Internet, it won’t be the first city launching fiber under the authority of its local public utility. The assets of Chattanooga’s Electric Power Board also belong to the people. “It’s old news that we have it,” Hays says. “The news that everybody is waiting for is, what are you doing with it? If we’re serious about using this as an economic development tool, we have to have an entity that wakes up everyday and works on these issues.” Wisecup, business manager for Longmont Power and Communications, says Longmont having its own electric

utility and now adding broadband is a good thing. “Like Chattanooga and Cedar Falls in Iowa, adding broadband is an easier way than just starting your own broadband utility in a city that doesn’t have its own municipal utility,” she says. Successful publicly run fiber projects have been launched in locales as varied as tobacco town Wilson, N.C., twin college towns Urbana and Champaign, Ill., and Portland suburb Sandy, Ore. Whether or not anyone else in Colorado launches municipally run projects, the industry is responding to the possibility of new local competition. When local officials decided to conduct a study to look into broadband options for Hinsdale County, according to Joanne Hovis, CEO of the nationwide Coalition for Local Internet Choice, “This step alone was sufficient to spur action on the part of the service provider,” she wrote in comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission. “When we would talk to our incumbent providers in the past,” Turner recounts, “Their line was ‘Your city is well-served. Our customers in your city are satisfied with the service. No, we don’t have plans to improve or bring new services to Montrose because there’s just not sufficient return on investment.’ Those were our marching orders to solve the problem on our own, if that’s what it takes. They are certainly interested in coming to the table and talking to us now.” Turner confirms he is now acquainted with phone and cable staffers he didn’t know existed before Montrose voters approved their ballot question. Scott Russell of CenturyLink Denver told BW, “CenturyLink would welcome the opportunity to explore public and private partnerships, but to date we have not been approached with any specific proposals.” “We have a lot of businesses and consumers who complain about their Internet service,” Boulder Councilman Cowles says. “We have people who work out of their home, scholars, students and artists who need faster broadband service that is less expensive. It’s a need that the city government should respond to, and the citizens as well. Boulder voters are very, very smart. I think they will see the advantage to voting for this, so I expect it to pass relatively easily.” There is no formal opposition to 2C. A yes vote doesn’t create any specific action. It doesn’t promise fiber to every home. There is no municipal bond. If that happens later, Boulder’s voters may see the existing providers up the ante. Boulder Weekly

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Boulder Community Media Executive Director Alan O’Hashi says he hopes 2C passes and wants to help lead a working group if Boulder convenes one. He is less concerned about whether the city of Boulder gets into running its own fiber business. The big question is how newly accessible networks will be managed, he says, and how the city will address questions of net neutrality, the concept that users should have equal access to any legal content online and all content providers hoping to reach online audiences must be treated equally by network operators. Net neutrality allowed great ideas like YouTube and Twitter to grow across networks big and small. But at the national policy level, phone and cable lobbyists are pushing to change the nature of the Open Internet. Public interest groups warn of a two-tier Internet, where fast-loading content is only available to the highest bidder and the next big idea is stifled because only Facebook or Netflix can afford to pay top dollar to Comcast or Time Warner Cable for optimal delivery. “I think they’re really trying to take away this net neutrality thing,” O’Hashi says of existing Internet service providers. “So the idea of the city being able to carve out this niche of net neutrality is really interesting.” The idea of Boulder as a Gig City raises other questions about how faster Internet could affect local industries and the city as a whole, including familiar concerns like cost of living and highway congestion. Could the rise of 3D printing, telemedicine innovations like rapid diagnostic imaging and other startups make Boulder even more expensive, Boulder Weekly

more sprawling, more traffic-snarled? Councilman Cowles points to the promise of easier telecommuting in response. What about Cowles’ well-intentioned comment in August during a Boulder City Council meeting that the startup economy brought a lot of very highly paid white men to the city, who are pricing out families? “Are you kidding me? Walk into an office and look around,” Espinoza says. “The idea that a person of color can’t compete in that environment, or a woman can’t compete, is just not the case. We live in a somewhat segregated community but I would say it’s better now than it used to be in part because of the high tech sector. I haven’t been asked if I speak English in some time now.” With the industry paying attention to measures like 2C, the added pressure could lead to investment in faster speeds and lowered prices for existing Comcast and CenturyLink customers, or it might not. Longmont Power and Communications officials are scheduled to make a detailed presentation to Longmont City Council on Oct. 21, including a pricing card. “A lot of these carriers are still cherry-picking their neighborhoods, so it’s not gonna be a product for everybody,” Hays points out. “AT&T, Cox, Comcast, these are the companies that were telling us four years ago we didn’t need fiber. I think any city that gets fiber only helps propel more applications and more future development. It just depends on whether you feel broadband is a utility, and I think we’ve answered that question.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ven by the anything-goes ethical code of the corporate jungle, Amazon.com’s alpha male, Jeff Bezos, is considered a ruthless predator by businesses that deal with him. As overlord of Amazon, by far the largest online marketer in the world (with more sales than the next nine U.S. online retailers combined), Bezos has the monopoly power to stalk, weaken and even kill off retail competitors — going after such giants as Barnes & Noble and Wal-Mart and draining the lifeblood from hundreds of smaller Main Street shops. He also goes for the throats of both large and small businesses that supply the millions of products his online behemoth sells. They’re lured into Amazon by its Boulder Weekly

unparalleled database of some 200 million customers, but once in, they face unrelenting pressure to lower what they charge Amazon for their products, compelled by the company to give it much better deals than other retailers can extract. Lest you think that “predator” is too harsh a term, consider the metaphor that Bezos himself chose when explaining how to get small book publishers to cough up deep discounts as the price of getting their titles listed on the Amazon website. As related by Businessweek reporter Brad Stone, Bezos instructed his negotiators to stalk them “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.” Bezos’ PR machine tried to claim that this sneering comment was just a little “Jeff

joke,” but they couldn’t laugh it off, for a unit dubbed the “Gazelle Project” had actually been set up inside Amazon. This top-level team focused on doing exactly what Bezos’ metaphor instructed: Pursue vulnerable small publishers and squeeze their wholesale  prices to Amazon down to the point of no profit, thus allowing the online retailer to underprice every other book peddler. When Stone exposed Gazelle last year in his book, The Everything Store, the project was suddenly rebranded with a bloodless name — “Small Publisher Negotiation Program” — but its mission remains the same. Today, Amazon sells a stunning 40 percent of all new books, up from 12 percent five years ago. It is even more

dominant in the digital book market, which is fast catching up to the sales level of physical books and is widely perceived as the future of publishing. Electronic book sales were nonexistent just seven years ago; today about a third of all books sold are e-books, and Amazon sells two-thirds of those. Of course, Amazon also owns Kindle, the largest-selling device for reading digital books. With his market clout, deep-pocket financing and ferocious price-cutting, Bezos has forced hundreds of America’s independent bookstores to close and has humbled the superstore book chains that once preyed on the independents and dominated the market. See AMAZON Page 22

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The “Gazelle Project” was set up to force small book publishers to deeply discount the price of their titles in order to get the titles listed on Amazon. Bezos instructured negotiators to stalk these publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.”

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Borders, the second-largest chain succumbed to bankruptcy in 2011. Now Barnes & Noble, the largest brick-andmortar bookstore, is stumbling. It has lost millions of dollars, closed dozens of stores, shrunk most others and suffered the embarrassment of its own board chairman frantically dumping big chunks of Barnes & Noble stock. Bezos’ online empire not only stands alone as the paramount bookseller, but is also the dominant price setter, the arbiter of which titles get the best access (or none) to the biggest number of buyers, the most powerful reviewer of books, the publisher of its own line of books, the keeper of an inhouse stable of writers — and even the sponsor of a major book prize. He achieved this the old-fashioned way: brute force. While it’s true that Amazon is innovative, efficient and focused on customer satisfaction, such factors alone did not elevate Amazon to its commanding level of market control. To reach that pinnacle, Bezos followed the path mapped by Rockefeller and other 19th-century robber barons: (1) ruthlessly exploit a vast and vulnerable low-wage workforce; (2) extract billions of dollars in government subsidies; and (3) wield every anti-competi-

tive weapon you can find or invent to get what you want from other businesses.

What’s the matter with Main Street? Through doing all of the above, Bezos has applied his cheetah business model to nearly everything retail. Amazon’s massive book dominion is now dwarfed by its annexation of dozens of other markets — book sales now make up a mere 7 percent of Amazon’s total business. Amazon has already captured more than a third of all online sales with a website that’s a phantasmagoric mall of unimaginable size, containing what amounts to hundreds of virtual superstores. In the process, and with the same deeply discounted prices they used to conquer the book business, Amazon has poached millions of customers from neighborhood shops and suburban malls. The chase for cheap has been great for Amazon, but it is proving intolerably expensive for your and my hometowns. Our local businesses lose customers and have to close, local workers lose jobs and local economies lose millions of consumer dollars that Amazon siphons into its faraway cofBoulder Weekly

news fers. What makes that even more intolerable is that much of Amazon’s competitive advantage has been ill-gotten, obtained by dirty deeds.

The Amazon subsidy Bezos would not have grabbed such market dominance if government had not been subsidizing his sales with special tax breaks for 20 years. In all but a handful of states, merchants are obliged by law to collect city and state sales taxes from everyone who buys stuff from them. But Amazon, as an online merchant, has avoided adding these taxes to the price that its customers pay. Bezos has emphatically insisted from the start that Amazon’s only facility is its headquarters in Washington state, claiming therefore that Amazon’s sales in the other 49 states are exempt from sales taxes — even though he racks up billions of dollars in sales in those states and even though Amazon has massive warehouses in about half of them. With legalistic hocus-pocus, Bezos asserts that the warehouses are independent contractors, not part of Amazon. In Texas, where I live, the sales tax rate is 8.15 percent, so by claiming to be exempt, Amazon gets a price subsidy of more than 8 cents on every dollar of its sales — that’s more than the entire profit margin of most independent shops. The tax subsidy ranges from about 4 percent to more than 10 percent across the country, handing Bezos an advantage of several billion dollars a year that has underwritten his fast and vast expansion. Amazon’s tax ploy has been key to its ability to undercut the prices of local retailers, forcing many of them out of business. And the tax dodge has also shortchanged our communities by eliminating billions in tax revenues that cities and states desperately need for schools, infrastructure, parks and other public services. During the past couple of years, 21 states have stopped playing the fool, finally requiring Amazon to collect sales taxes like its competitors do. In a study released earlier this year, the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed retail data of five of these states and found that Amazon’s sales plummeted by nearly 10 percent after they started charging sales tax. It was saving the cost of sales tax — not any Bezos “magic” — that kept many customers buying from his online mall. Of course, that’s cold comfort to the retailers driven out of business during two decades of Amazon’s government-backed assault. Boulder Weekly

“But wait,” as they say on latenight TV infomercials, “there’s more!” Amazon’s amazing slice-and-dice tax machine not only avoids paying state taxes, but it also extracts tax money from states to expand its warehouse network. This supremely rich company says that states wanting the (lowwage, no-benefit, temporary and dehumanizing) jobs that come with its warehouses must show Amazon the money, i.e., offer “incentive grants” or tax breaks. In short, flimflammery and government favoritism help Amazon overwhelm honest competition and extend its monopoly reach.

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The Amazon crush Having overweening market power means never having to say you’re sorry — even to your owners. Beyond taxpayer subsidies, Bezos can afford to be a voracious predator because his Wall Street investors have allowed him to keep operating without returning a profit. On paper, his revenue-generating machine has lost billions of dollars, yet his major investors, enamored with Amazon’s takeover of one consumer market after another, haven’t pulled the plug. Amazon uses its capital to buy its competitors and/or to market its own version of competitors’ products, which it then sells at a loss in order to squeeze hapless competitors out of business. That’s the very definition of predatory pricing. Brad Stone’s book gives a chilling example of one such predation. Amazon has its own corporate espionage team called Competitive Intelligence that tracks rivals. In 2009, CIAmazon spotted a fast-rising online seller of one particular baby product: diapers.com. A Bezos lieutenant was dispatched to inform the diaper honchos that the cheetah was going into that business, so they should just sell their firm to it. No thanks, replied the upstart. Amazon promptly responded to the rebuff by marketing another line of diapers — with a price discount of 30 percent. It kept dropping the price even lower (plus free shipping) when the smaller firm tried to fight back. Diapers.com’s investors grew antsy, and in September 2010, the two founders of the company met with Bezos himself and surrendered. The final blow was their discovery that Bezos, in his campaign to crush them and control the market of online diaper sales, was on track to lose $100 million in just three months. See AMAZON Page 24

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Monopoly, for real Producers need the marketplace, the marketplace needs products. You’d

think this would be a felicitous, symbiotic relationship, but when the market grows into a virtual monopoly, the monopolist can turn on suppliers with a vengeance. Amazon has done precisely that to book publishers. While Amazon’s fight with international publishing giant Hachette has been well publicized, it’s medium-sized and small publishers who are especially vulnerable. They don’t have splashy marketing budgets, so they’re largely dependent on access to the buyers coming to Amazon’s online market. “I offered them a 30 percent discount,” the head of a small academic publishing house told the New York Times this year. “They demanded 40,” she said. After she acquiesced to that, the cheetah soon came back, demanding 45. “Where do I find that five percent?” she asks. “Amazon may be able to operate at a loss, but I’m not in a position to do that.” She can’t leave, but staying could crush her company: “I wake up every single day knowing Amazon might make new, impossible demands.”

It’s time to tell Amazon: no more Rather than examine the far-reaching social destructiveness in Amazon’s business model, the Powers That Be blithely hail Bezos as an exemplary corporate leader and point to his company as a model for the New Economy. They smile cluelessly when he says it’s not Amazon killing off local businesses and turning work into a low-wage, roboticized nightmare — rather it’s “the future” producing these changes. Bezos has gotten away with this hornswoggle up to now by endlessly Boulder Weekly

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Riding for a lifeline A biking trip to explore a family’s Slovakian roots takes some surprising turns

by Adam Perry

ou do not look like a person who has just biked over 100 kilometers,” Jan “Jano” Rohac of Greenways Travel Club told me, very matter-of-factly, in his thick Slovakian accent as I entered the Grand Hotel Matej in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia, after sunset. Helmet still on, pushing my bike through the hotel’s front door, I was wearing a battered Pittsburgh Steelers poncho that was covered in rain and mud, much like my face and hair. But I was smiling, and Rohac was correct: My legs felt fresh, and I still had the energy and enthusiasm to do another 100 kilometers (62 miles) if it was somehow

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necessary. That feeling, and the prospect of traveling alone by bicycle through three countries I’d never been to, staying in a new, hard-to-pronounce town each night, was what took me and my bike trailer to Eastern Europe this summer. But I ended up finding a lot more in Hungary, Slovakia and Poland than exercise and a chance to hone my navigation skills. In April, after receiving my tax return, I decided on a whim that it was time to visit my ancestral home of Slovakia, where my mother’s family has deep roots. After one night of research, I discovered that my great-grandfather was born in Niedzica (pronounced

“knee-jit-sah”), which is now Polish territory. So it made sense, as an avid cyclist living in Boulder, to book a flight from Denver to Budapest and a flight home, one week later, out of Krakow. For a hefty number of euros, fully supported nine-day Budapest-toKrakow (the 250-mile Amber Trail, which is at least as old as ancient Rome) adventure-cycling tours are available. They include hotels, an impressively equipped bicycle, a GPS device, luggage service and around-the-clock emergency support via a borrowed cell phone. Having previously completed numerous bike tours in America and Europe, I decided to contact Greenways and tell them I wanted to do the

Budapest-to-Krakow ride in four days, not nine, and would bring my own bike and haul my clothes, tools, etc., in panniers. I only needed the GPS, cell phone, hotels and directions. It cost a fraction of the normal price and, having biked the Swiss Alps last year, the cycling was downright easy. The navigation was not. Even with the GPS device attached to my handlebars, and a list of directions, there were still turns I had trouble finding — such as onto a skinny, unmaintained country road between Tupa and Slatina in Slovakia. The GPS device would only tell me there was a turn somewhere near, and the directions from the travel company read simply, “Sharp left turn

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towards ball-shaped water tower.” The hard-to-find dirt road — which looked even more iffy when torn apart by a day of constant heavy rain — took me almost an hour to settle on as I biked in circles. That confusion added somewhere between 10 and 20 miles onto the ride from Esztergom, Hungary, to Banská Štiavnica, Rohac’s hometown, where I found a porcelain doll for my daughter. Jano, whose idea of simply writing down the names of each village I’d pass through each day and crossing them off in order helped immeasurably, met me in the lobby of the Grand Hotel Matej around 8 p.m. on August 31 to give me some maps and chat about my day. The previous morning, after I’d arrived from a short bike ride from Budapest to Szentendre, Jano had met me in Hungary’s idyllic “City of Artists” (sort of an Eastern European Taos beside the Danube River), to hand me the GPS device and cell phone, as well as hotel vouchers. Jano even rode about 15 miles north with me between Szentendre and Estzergom, which is on the Slovakian border; we got to know each other a little, talking about our families and biking along the Danube, taking two necessary ferries before Jano went home. When I told the affable, burly Slovakian — whose day job is in cycling advocacy for an Eastern European environmental activism association — about my Slovakian roots and my quest to visit Niedzica, he was unimpressed. “That’s in Poland,” Jano said with a straight face. I could tell he wanted to roll his eyes, but instead chose to change the subject. My grandparents, born in Pittsburgh like my parents and I, raised my mother and her siblings firmly Slovakian, speak-

Muddy roads did little to slow the author’s progress from Budapest to Krakow.

ing the language in their home when I was growing up and often serving rich Slovakian cuisine, especially around Christmas. But Jano was right — just a little research uncovered that the twocastle village of Niedzica (where my grandfather’s father, Adalbert “George” Lopata, was born in 1878) has been in Poland since the 1920s. And my grandmother’s family is from Dubne, which has roughly the same territorial history. Despite all that, and Jano’s assertion that my family is not Slovakian, my time cycling south to north through the country from Budapest to Krakow truly felt like a homecoming. An ancestral voyage. Budapest, where I bought the famed herbal liqueur Unicum Zwack to take home to my love, Irene, and had a few hours to dip my bones in the famous Szechenyi Baths and climb Gellert Hill at sunset for a stunning view of the

world-class city, was startlingly beautiful and cosmopolitan. Plus, a dinner of tasty goulash, bread and good dark beer at a nice restaurant in downtown Budapest cost me about as much as a Happy Meal at an American McDonald’s. And Krakow — which made me feel Polish when I realized every pierogi joint I walked into smelled like my grandmother’s kitchen — was a revelation. The Cracow Hostel, where I made friends with many students, mostly Belgians, is right on the historic Rynek Glowny Grand Square, and I spent the last few days of my trip visiting World War II sites such as Schindler’s factory and Auschwitz, while hanging out in youthful Kazimierz at night. But Slovakia, where almost no one spoke English, was the highlight of my trip. I enjoyed drinking honey wine, and playing pool with locals at the aptly

named Jumbo Pub, in Liptovsky Mikulas, and feasting on potato pancakes with sheep cheese and roast pork in Dolny Kubin, where I befriended Karol Szekely, father of Stanley Cup champion Martin Cibak, whose hockey card Szekely proudly gave me. And I’ll never forget accompanying Jano on a side trip to the intact traditional Slovakian mountain village of Vikolínec, which was attacked by the Germans during World War II. However, it was the many desolate, serene miles between main roads, of which there were few, in Slovakia that I treasured the most, hearing nothing but my muddy bike rolling along and animals — notably little deer the color of a ripe orange — scurrying away. Deep in the forest after a six-mile climb above Liptovská Osada, I snapped a picture that, in hindsight, signifies the sense of home I found on my ride through Slovakia. Lush green all around; humble, poverty-stricken little villages full of welcoming strangers who rarely spoke a word of English but excitedly communicated with such wellknown gestures as handing me complimentary beers on rainy afternoons when I’d only stopped to use a bar’s bathroom; rolling hills far less imposing than the juxtaposition of astounding beauty and bona fide masochism I encountered while biking Switzerland last year; and mile after mile of mostly unmaintained wilderness, where I saw not one fellow cyclist on my entire ride. Nor did I endure any mechanical problems, luckily, for my fourth straight bike tour. Although my bike slowed down some after three days of getting muddy — almost as muddy as my ponsee SLOVAKIA Page 32

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cho — on the Slovakian trails, it sustained no flats between Budapest and Krakow, and steered well even on winding descents during downpours. At times I felt like legendary Steelers running back Jerome Bettis joyously tumbling through a defense on an exceedingly wet day, with the playing surface at Heinz Field shredded beyond recognition. It was a blast. Biking virtually every day of the year in Boulder, at over a mile above sea level, I regularly climb Poor Man Road and Lefthand Canyon, and often ride from Boulder to Denver without stopping, so none of the cycling in Eastern Europe was physically challenging, unlike my Swiss tour. The real adventure was traveling alone through three countries with different currencies and different languages, none of which I speak. That kind of seat-of-your-bikeshorts adventure was made less challenging by how ridiculously cheap it is in Eastern Europe. Five dollars (including tip) in Budapest and all through Slovakia — a few more in Krakow — will easily get you a hearty, filling meal and a large local beer. And, if you’re firm, even a five-hour cab ride from Krakow to

Niedzica — three of those hours in the wrong direction — costs only $63. You see, after arriving in Krakow, patronizing the pierogi joints that smelled exactly like my grandma’s kitchen and visiting Wawel Castle and every other tourist attraction I could possibly fit into two days, I made sure to bribe a cabbie to take me to my great-grandfather’s birthplace. Around 10 a.m. on Sept. 5, near St. Florian’s Gate, I counted my remaining zlotys and attempted to negotiate the price of a ride to Niedzica, which is inaccessible by bicycle from Krakow. The cabbie claimed to speak not a word of English, and quickly took me toward the highway, headed south. After three hours — about an hour more than it takes to drive from Krakow to Niedzica — the cabbie suddenly spoke plenty of English, mostly obscenities. In a fit, he rolled down his window in obscure villages to ask everyone from construction workers to schoolchildren how to get to Niedzica. When we finally arrived there, passing iconic 700-yearold Dunajec Castle before stopping in front of St. Bartholemew’s Church — and its Pittsburgh-funded monument that includes a tribute to my late uncle Jozef — the cabbie said that, although Boulder Weekly

adventure the tab had reached approximately 600 zlotys (or $200), he would accept 450. I gave him 200 zlotys — what it would have cost had he not lost his way — and exited the cab without argument, not even looking back to see it speed away. After viewing the monument and the gorgeous little 14th-century church, I felt half satisfied and half stupid, realizing that since my great-grandfather died in Pittsburgh, this might be the gist of my visit to Niedzica. But a guy named Michael, who was picking up his 5-yearold son, Wojtek, at an adjacent preschool, was kind enough to not only take me to the home of a man who shares my mother’s family name (Lopata, which is so common in Niedzica that the man’s response was a shrug) but also introduce me to Father Jozef Bednarczyk, whose office is across from St. Bartholomew’s. Though he spoke not a word of English save for “moment,” which he used to tell me he was getting up to do something and then return, Father Bednarczyk understood well who I was and why I had come all the way from Colorado. For a good 20 minutes he searched through the big, dusty log of Niedzica births and deaths while I sat and wondered whether there was a bus to Krakow close by. After several rounds of saying “moment” before going to his bookshelf and back, Father Bednarczyk — who had previously seemed rather imposing, because of both his size and his silence — became animated. I had scrawled my great-grandfather’s name and birthdate on a small piece of paper torn from my notebook and handed it to the priest when I entered his office. Now, Father Bednarczyk motioned for me to stand up and join him behind his desk to look in the town record. As I reveled in seeing my great-grandfather’s name and birthdate (April 9, 1878) in 136-yearold handwriting, the priest shook his head, said “moment,” and began writing another name, Catarine, on scratch paper in red pen along with the same birthdate as my great-grandfather. “A twin?” I asked. He understood somehow and smiled, nodding approval. “Moment,” Father Bednarczyk said, and flipped forward through the Niedzica village log. Just a few pages later, my great aunt’s name was written again. And again the priest scribbled in red pen on the same scratch paper (which is now on my family’s fridge in Boulder) below Catarine’s birthdate. “31.8.1878.” It turns out Catarine died at four months old, in August 1878. The news of her birth and death was Boulder Weekly

astonishing, something it seems not even my grandparents knew. Father Bednarczyk shook my hand, gave me his card, and walked me outside onto the steps of the church. Two local women were walking by, and he spoke to them in Polish. I understood not a word. One of the women suddenly spoke to me in English. “We will take you to the cemetery,” she said. “It is just down the road. We’re going there already, to visit my grandfather, who is buried there.” To not only learn of my great aunt’s birth, and death, but visit her resting place felt like a miracle, especially to someone raised in a family as staunchly and historically Catholic as mine. The two friendly Niedzica women, one 43 and the other 18, an aunt and her niece, have both lived in Chicago — which reportedly has the largest Polish population of any city other than Warsaw. We spent about an hour in the cemetery, with its timeless views of the village and the surrounding mountains, before I took the women out for pizza and they showed me where to catch a bus to Krakow as the sun sank. Catarine Lopata’s resting place is technically there in that small Niedzica cemetery — the town knows where the unmarked graves from the 1800s, when the cemetery was built, are — but there are no headstones from that time, only unmarked crosses in one small section and ominous mounds in another. Thus, although my ancestral journey felt complete, standing there in the Niedzica cemetery feeling Polish, Slovakian and American all at once, there was still a sense of mystery, knowing only that my great-aunt’s resting place was very near. From Boulder to Budapest by plane, from Budapest to Krakow by bicycle, and to Niedzica by confused cab, it was a solo voyage that made Slovakia feel like home, Poland feel like a newly discovered limb, and adventure cycling feel even more like a calling. Arriving at the Boulder Transit Center after midnight on Sept. 7 following a 23-hour travel day with stops in Frankfurt and Calgary, there was no one to pick me up, let alone the huge box containing my bike, and no bus on which we’d fit. So there I was at the vacant bus station, unpacking my bike and carefully reassembling it before attaching panniers full of clothes, gear and gifts. Putting on my helmet and climbing Broadway heading north in the moonlight — with a porcelain doll from Banská Štiavnica lying face up, tied to my rear bike rack — it seemed another trip was beginning. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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(Clockwise from left) André Derain’s “Mountains at Coullioure,” Henri Matisse’s “Still Life with Sleeping Woman,” Matisse’s “Open Window, Coullioure” and Raoul Dufy’s “The Beach at Sainte-Adresse.” All courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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fortable, they say. Spend a while. Their inspiration was a quote from Matisse in which he declares: “What I want is an art of purity and tranquility … so that all those who work with their brains … will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable arm chair.” Early 20th century critics and viewers, however, were anything but willing to cozy up to these paintings. The Fauvist movement was named for the French les fauves, meaning wild beasts. It was a brief period, a necessary break from the Impressionist style that opened doors for the successive movements in art — Cubism, Abstraction and Surrealism among them — and a style that Matisse never abandoned.

Matisse exhibit invites visitors to sit a while among the ‘wild beasts’ by Elizabeth Miller

ot many people in the world get to live with a Matisse in the living room — to look at it over time and let it slowly explain itself. To contemplate the pink shutters and teal walls, the orange sail boat masts and periwinkle hulls — the super-real colors that somehow feel precisely right for the southern French fishing village they depict. “Working before a soul-stirring landscape, all I thought of was making my colors sing, without paying any heed to rules and regulations,” Henri Boulder Weekly

Matisse wrote. This fall, the Denver Art Museum is inviting visitors to have a taste of what it would be like to sit and listen to 14 color-soaked canvases from Matisse, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet and Georges Braque, all paintings in the bold palette of the Fauvist movement of which Matisse was leader. So for Matisse and Friends: Selected Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art, in an experimental move, design staff filled the galleries with arm chairs, sofas and end tables topped with vases or a clock, even a bird cage. Get com-

The words tossed around in association with the movement are far from comforting: wild, inelegant, immediate, radical. Art critic Marcel Nicolle declared Fauvists paintings the work of a child playing with a paint box, saying splashes of color had been juxtaposed without rhyme or reason and declaring it “either raving madness or a bad joke.” Today, they’re considered masterworks. “These are massive works for us. They are works that rank among the most cherished, among the most visible, the most important works of every museum, and of course as well the most expensive work in the art market,” says Christoph Heinrich, director of the Denver Art Museum. “We thought, ‘What are we doing with these 14 wonderful works? Why don’t we really see MATISSE Page 36

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understand this as an opportunity to That theme is also one the design make an experiment?’ And you know, staff picked up, and rather than hanging we love to do new things. We love to these paintings on the traditional white do things that we haven’t done before. walls, they’ve painted the galleries in So here, we offer you an encounter with bold shades lifted right from the can14 masterworks, with 14 exquisite vases — teal, brick red, deep purple. paintings that you can have a dialogue The paintings burst off the walls, with, that you can spend time with.” the vivid backdrops enlivening the colIt’s a rare encounter. These paintors within the frames and creating an ings, all from the collection of the immersive feel of having sunk a little National Gallery of Art, seldom leave further into the works themselves, as their home in Washington, D.C., and though the visitor could live and are on loan only because the National breathe in the world of pink tree trunks Gallery is currently being renovated. and orange hillsides. “Each and every of No longer do we these works is stunsee the soft, tender ning, brings so much palette of the ON THE BILL: Matisse and essence of the artists, Impressionists. These Friends: Selected Masterworks the circle around artists use bold, vivid from the National Gallery of Art. Denver Art Museum, 100 Matisse, and tells colors — they’re W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, about a fantastic explosive. They’re the 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 8, moment in time,” full brass band. 2015. Heinrich says. “This “The Fauve artists moment in time when were really interested Impressionists got a little pedestrian — in, how do we take the elements of art everybody was painting Impressionism — color, line and shape — and make it at the early years of the 20th century. It more expressive,” says Danielle St. lost a little of its edge, its power, and Peter, master teacher for modern and there was a new generation that was contemporary art at the Denver Art really eager to take it up and to do Museum. something that nobody had done before, Maurice de Vlamick, who comand it was a group of painters around pared colors to an orchestra cued up Matisse — Demain, the young Braque, to play the saxophone, trumpet and the painters that really believed in the slide trombone at full blast, wrote: “I power of color, in the immediacy of the made my tubes of paint burst upon visual and the painting.” my canvas and used nothing but verThough to the modern eye, the two milions, chromes, greens and Prussian groups bear much in common — natublue to snarl out what I wanted to ral landscapes as subjects, visible brush- say.” work and prioritizing expression over His fellow Fauvist Derain found exact replication of the world — the himself in direct conversation with artists saw a gulf between themselves. Impressionist master Claude Monet “The word ‘impressionism’ perfectly when his dealer commissioned him to characterizes their intentions, for they travel to London and make some 50 register fleeting impressions,” Matisse cityscapes to capitalize on Monet’s comwrote in “Notes of a Painter,” published mercial success with his paintings of in 1908. “This term, however, cannot be Waterloo Bridge, the Houses of used with reference to more recent Parliament and the Thames River. painters who avoid the first impression Derain was coming from southern and consider it deceptive. A rapid renFrance, where he had spent the summer dering of a landscape represents only experimenting with color alongside one moment of its appearance. I prefer, Matisse. His “View of the Thames,” from by insisting upon essentials, to discover 1905, three years after Monet began its more enduring character and content, even at the risk of sacrificing some exhibiting paintings of the foggy city, shows dark blue boats billowing pink of its pleasing qualities.” Matisse found harmony in the com- smoke, their hulls filled with pink, and a minty green Tower Bridge and position of everyday objects — the vases, chairs, curtains and sailboats visi- Houses of Parliament at the skyline. “Where Monet is concerned,” ble through an open window in the Derain wrote to fellow Fauvist harbor. He describes building a harmonious work of art without any superflu- Vlaminck, “I adore him despite everyous details to “encroach upon the essen- thing, precisely because of his error, which offers me a precious lesson. Isn’t tial elements.” he right, in the end, with his fugitive He declared, “the chief aim of color and non-lasting color, to render the should be to serve expression.”

natural impression which is only an impression and which does not last? As for me, I am seeking something else: what there is in nature, on the contrary, that is fixed, eternal, complex.” Derain’s London is one of bright patches of contrasting color. Gone is Monet’s attention to replicating the exact color of the Thames’ water at a specific hour of the day. This is a far bolder and wilder claim to the universe. “Fauvism was our ordeal by fire,” Derain wrote. “No matter how far we moved away from things, it was never far enough. Colors became charges of dynamite.” In “Mountains at Collioure,” which is from the same year as his London excursion, visible brushwork applied short swipes of lime green, cobalt blue and teal to trees with trunks the color of salmon fillets set against a backdrop of orange, pink and blue hillsides. “I think in our eyes, today, [Impressionists and Fauvists] do seem very similar, but at the time, when these were exhibited in 1905, to have blue on the mountain in that way, or pink tree stump, that was just too far beyond being descriptive,” St. Peter says. Rather than hanging wall placards with notes on each painting, the Denver Art Museum staff put leatherbound binders that pair quotes from the artist and photographs of the areas they painted with close-up shots of the paintings themselves. The audio guide focuses not on art history, but on cultivating an experience of looking closely at the artwork. “This isn’t a Fauve 101 show. It’s really about the experience of these paintings,” says St. Peter. “We really wanted to think about how to treat them as guests of honor here at the Denver Art Museum. It’s rare that they leave Washington, D.C., so we know that this is a really significant loan for us, so we wanted to treat them in a really unique and special way, a way that maybe people haven’t experienced them in the past.” There’s just one teal loveseat on which to sit to see Matisse’s small in size, but huge in reputation “Open Window,” which hangs on a wall in the corner by itself while most of the rest of the paintings are shown in pairs. “I do understand that there might be people who are like, standing in line to go sit in front of the Matisse,” St. Peter says. “But I guess it’s a good problem to have, right, when you have people who want to sit and spend time with it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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overtones Pro Musica Colorado opens season with beautiful music but no theme by Peter Alexander

ON THE BILL: Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra Cynthia Katsarelis, music director with Amanda Balestrieri, soprano, perform Jean Sibelius’ Rakastava, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 at 7:30 p.m. Friday Oct. 17, Montview Presbyterian, Denver 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, First United Methodist, Boulder. www. promusicacolorado.org/season

ro Musica Colorado, the pro- yet the music is ideally suited [to the dark references,” Katsarelis says. “The fessional chamber orchestra program].” prayer, ‘God bless my people,’ it’s such a directed by Cynthia Symphony No. 39 is the first of the poignant prayer because we know what Katsarelis, has told us three symphonies Mozart wrote in happened to them, and the rendering of “Stories” and taken us on 1788, and it is the only one of the three the street noises takes on a different “Journeys” in their past seasons. But that Pro Musica hasn’t played before. turn when you know that the next year there is no theme for 2014–15. The symphonies of 1788 are particularly his father was killed in a car accident.” “Sometimes in classical music, when celebrated because they were the last Amanda Balestrieri has sung you’re putting together beautiful prothree Mozart composed and there is no Knoxville: 1915, but she says that recent grams, the pieces are perfect together, certainty that they were ever performed experiences have deepened her underbut you can’t come up Glenn Ross standing of those with a great theme,” darker shades in the Katsarelis explains. music. That particularly “It has been seems true of the first probably eight years concert of Pro since I’ve sung it,” Musica’s season, she says. “I’ve had which will be perthings happen in my formed Friday in life that made me Denver and Saturday relate much more in Boulder (7:30 p.m. closely to the piece. both nights; www. “The middle promusicacolorado. section became org/season). The promuch more meangram comprises three ingful after I had pieces with no evident suffered the loss of connection among family members. To them: Sibelius’ tone me now the climax poem Rakastava for of the piece is not so strings and percusmuch the nostalgic Cynthia Katsarelis directs Pro Musica’s season-opener, which came together sion, Samuel Barber’s around Mozart’s Symphony No. 39. and atmospheric deeply moving setting part, which is how of James Agee’s prose most people think of poem Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for in his lifetime. this piece. I think of it as where it sudsoprano and chamber orchestra, and All three symphonies — No. 39, No. denly gets much slower and says, ‘God Mozart’s Symphony No. 39. 40 in G minor, and No. 41 in C major bless my people.’” “I started with the Mozart,” (“Jupiter”) — are considered among Katsarelis relates the yearning for a Katsarelis says of how the program Mozart’s greatest works. They have been lost innocence not only to Agee’s family came together. “Then I thought about described as a large symphonic cycle, tragedy but also to the fact that in 1915 works that I thought would be compleopening with the ceremonial slow intro- the country stood on the precipice of mentary. duction of No. 39, with the stormy G World War I. “The Mozart symphony’s absolutely minor Symphony in the middle, and the “I had both in mind,” she says. “Even sublime, and in the second movement radiant “Jupiter” Symphony ending the though it’s written for a specific set of very stormy, and there is just something cycle with a triumphant fugue. circumstances, it speaks to the world sitin the sound world and the emotional The emotional heart of the program uation of the time as well. The Greeks world that I think goes extremely well will be the Barber Knoxville: Summer of have a fantastic word for it: xenitia (zewith the Barber.” 1915. Agee’s text describes an idyllic neh-tee-AH), a feeling of catastrophic And Sibelius, which is based on a summer evening when the author was, loss and yearning for home.” story about doomed lovers from Finnish as he wrote, “so successfully disguised to Conductors are always most excited legend? Katsarelis admits it has nothing myself as a child.” Both the text and about their next program. But it is clear to do with the other pieces, except that Barber’s music evoke a deep nostalgia that this concert is very dear to it seems to fit. for the life of a child, secure within his Katsarelis’ heart. “I just love Sibelius, but there’s only family, with “my mother who is good to “Balestrieri is just a magnificent singso much that you can play with a cham- me” and “my father who is good to me.” er, [with] her range of expression and ber orchestra,” she says, noting that the But beneath the nostalgia is the vocal capability,” she says. “I think that symphonies require much larger forces. knowledge of the adult author that the the chemistry of her, and the Barber, “So we have this beautiful piece that idyll would soon be destroyed. and us, and the Mozart is just exquisite doesn’t go with the Barber story, it “The poem speaks really beautifully and fantastic.” doesn’t go with the Mozart story, and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com to the innocence, but there are sort of Boulder Weekly

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ON THE BILL: Ambition Facing West, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, www.boulderensembletheatre.org, $16-$27. Through November 2.

BETC gets ambitious by Gary Zeidner

hen is a meditation still water. The backstage wall holds a really an illustration? collection of white rectangles of various Though I don’t believe sizes. Reminiscent of the memorable set playwright Anthony for the Avenue Theatre’s 2004 producClarvoe or the Boulder tion of Metamorphoses, Ambition Facing Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) West’s set is elementally evocative and set out to answer, or necessarily even grabs the viewer’s attention and interest pose, that question with Michael Ensminger Ambition Facing West, BETC’s production of this award-winning play presents itself as a meditation on the nature of family but is truly more of an expertly crafted illustration of one family’s evolution. Clarvoe’s own family immigrated from Croatia, and that history clearly informs Ambition Facing West. Given the current debate regarding immigration in the United States, many will view Ambition Facing West at the Dairy the play as a commentary on the topic. To me, that is an agenda-driven Rorschach immediately. response, albeit a potentially subconTold in the same interweaved, temscious one, to what is really a theatrical porally overlapped fashion as Pulp watercolor, a beautiful rendering of the Fiction, Ambition Facing West takes cyclical nature of relationships. place in Croatia in 1910, Wyoming in Thanks to the set design by Tina the 1940s and Japan in the 1980s. The Anderson, Ambition Facing West complay jumps from one time frame to the mands the audience’s attention before next from scene to scene, and often the actor’s even take the stage. There is characters from two different eras share no curtain in the Dairy’s East Theatre, the stage. While they can’t interact with so the stage is laid bare for audience their past or future selves, they seem to members taking their seats. The downbe hauntingly aware of them. stage expanse is covered in gravel. In Croatia, a teenage boy named Upstage consists of a wooden-slatted Stipan ( John Hauser) yearns to seek his platform surrounding a small pool of fortunes in America. Though his moth-

er, Marija (Haley Johnson) loathes the idea and the local priest, Father Luka (Casey Andree), encourages him to stay in his homeland, Stipan’s discussions with Ivo (Chris Kendall), an older Croatian just returned from the U.S., intensify his longing to reach the “land of opportunity.” Thirty years later in Wyoming, Stipan (now played by Chris Kendall) and his wife, Josephina (Karen LaMoureaux), raise their teenage daughter, Alma (Adrian Egolf ). Against the backdrop of World War II, Alma seeks to understand her family’s history and plot a course for her future. In 1980s Japan, Alma (now played by Haley Johnson) is a businesswoman struggling with Japanese culture and to connect with her own teenage son, Joey (Benjamin Bonenfant). As the fidgety, Game Boyaddicted Joey begins to embrace Zen Buddhism, Alma must decide whether to stay by his side or follow her work further West. If BETC’s Ambition Facing West were a film, it would be considered Oscar bait, and rightly so as I could see it earning any number of awards. Tina Anderson’s set, a character in and of itself, is complemented by Andrew Metzroth’s lighting design, which uses the white rectangles to great effect. Matthew Fischer’s sound design, which

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is equally understated and effective, alternately sets the tone and embellishes it. Haley Johnson, who impressed me in the otherwise execrable A Lie of the Mind earlier this year, brings equally grounded credibility to both her stern 1910 Croatian mother and her urbane 1980s one. As always, Chris Kendall delivers a naturalistic performance seemingly effortlessly. And LaMoureaux’s and Egolf ’s portrayals are so assured they make you wish that their supportive roles could be expanded. While demonstrating excellent facility for comedy — often from offstage — LaMoureaux also soars in one intensely emotional scene in which she elucidates on the nature of pain to Egolf ’s overwrought teenager. Aided by dialect coach Tamara Meneghini, the actors’ accents are quite credible, particularly when they are playing the Croatian and Italian characters. At the center of all this goodness is director Stephen Weitz. An accomplished actor in his own right, over the past few years Weitz has begun spending more time behind the scenes and less of it onstage. Ambition Facing West is incontrovertible evidence of his continued growth in the director’s chair. Ambition Facing West is first-class theatre. Living up to BETC’s promise, it is indeed a wonderful story wonderfully told. With it, BETC proves once again to be one of the top tier theatre companies not just in Boulder but anywhere. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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The theme for October’s appearance of Truth Be Told, Boulder’s bi-monthly story slam, is “Teacher, teacher!,” a theme that is sure to deliver a broad and enthralling variety of experiences. The three featured storytellers/actors and seven audience members chosen from a hat will each have five minutes to wax about all things teacher-teacherly. The slam is hosted by performance artists and teachers Nina Rolle and Johanna Walker, who will be entertaining with in-between story medleys based on the theme.

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EVENTS from Page 43 Boulder, 303-492-8008. Jeff Brinkman. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Live Jazz Jam. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Pine Dwellers. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., #1, Longmont, 303-684-8383. Ramaya Soskin, Cate Coslor and Paul Kimbiris. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Vic Anderson. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. World Music Pick. 7 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164.

Events Boulder Medical Marijuana Harvest Festival. 9 a.m. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder. Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & Swing. 6:30 p.m.

Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Dancelympics. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geeks Who Drink — Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Manon. 7 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder. The Power of Video Storytelling for Non-Profits. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Skiers vs. Snowboarders. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Tango Intermediate Drop in Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Zumba GoldToning at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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CFOOTMAD — Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Adam Bodine Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Conversaciones en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Big Paddy. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Get Growing Garden Program. 9:30 a.m. Wow Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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Caribou Mountain Collective. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355. Chain Station. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Craig Cornett and the Phast & Wreckless. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Danny Shafer & the 21st Century. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Dechen Hawk. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Fast Eddy Duo. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Forrest Kinney. 7:30 p.m. Chamber Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. G Jai’s Jook Joint. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. George Nelson. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Ginga. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Girls on Top. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Grind Organ Trio. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder. Honey Tree. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. The Long Run. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Lucas Swafford. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Makeshift Funk Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Pecha Kucha 20 x 20. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Salsa Night. 9:30 p.m. Boulder Agora, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-477-4164.

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Aeris “Capriccio.” 7:30 p.m. First Lutheran Church, 3rd Avenue and Terry Street, Longmont. Austrian Connection. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Bareface. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder. Chuck Pyle. 7 p.m. Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3163.

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Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 415-290-9242.

Molly Kollier. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Fast Eddy. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

Nick O’Connor. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

The Four Pillars Appearing from the Equal D. 8 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theater, University of Colorado, 1125 18th St., #223, Boulder.

Nolan McInnis. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303908-6036.

Foxfeather. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Railsplitters. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Rogue Two. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

High Five. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder.

Scott Martin & Wellington Bullings. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472.

Holiday Blue. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Swing St. Vrain. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Kort McCumber. 6 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Travis Bush. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

The Lindsey Saunders Band. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Wendy Woo. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

My Blue Sky, Jimmy Hall. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Zen Mustache. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Nick O’Connor. 12 p.m. Mac’s Place, 1640 Pace St., #400, Longmont, 303-678-8929.

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Boulder Medical Marijuana Harvest Festival. 9 a.m. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder.

Rachel and the Ruckus. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Campfire Tales. 7 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

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Thursday, Oct. 16 The Human Body — by Paolo Giordano. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

An Afternoon with Local Authors. With Cynthia Kennedy, William Spain, Paul Wagner and Kathleen Willett. 2 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Innisfree: Clint Locks. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

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Friday, Oct. 17 Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Little Failure — by Gary Shteyngart. 7 p.m. University of Denver, 2211 S. Josephine St., Denver.

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Innisfree: Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Saturday, Oct. 18 Institutional Time — by Judy Chicago. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. The Adventure Gap — by James Mills. 5 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Pinterest Perfect — by Ronda Palazzari. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Tuesday, Oct. 21

Paleo Dog — by Jean Hofve. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Meet the Authors Teen Fantasy Panel Discussion. With Sara Raasch, Natalie Whipple, Renee Collins and Bree Despain. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Innisfree: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Sunday, Oct. 19

EVENTS from Page 45 Radiate Unified Dance Party with Mr. Gettdowne. 9:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460.

Rogue Two. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-5300642.

Lyons Cinema Movie Night. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236.

Sammy Dee. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 12 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303-499-1444.

Something Underground. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Take Down the Door — Irish Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Trios de Soles Mexico. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Events Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. The Biggest Little Quilt Show in Northern Colorado. 9 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, Building A, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Third and Fifth Saturday SWING w/ Live Music! 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Tree Planting at Walden Ponds. 9 a.m. Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, Boulder, 303-678-6344. Tyrone Webb paints live. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Sunday, October 19 Music Bluegrass Jam. 2 p.m. Black Canyon Distillery, 13710 Deere Court, Unit B, Longmont, 720-209-9701.

Cinema Program free screening of “World Home Movie Day.” 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Cavani Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

Introduction to Your Human Microbiome. 1 p.m. Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, Butcher Auditorium, CU-Boulder campus, Research Park, Boulder.

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Tango Technique Class with G&G. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Boulder Medical Marijuana Harvest Festival. 9 a.m. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder.

Community Shred Day. 9 a.m. Elevations Credit Union, 2960 Diagonal Highway, Boulder, 303-415-3504.

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Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

La Fiesta. 7 p.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder. Le Nozze di Figaro Live. 6:30 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder.

Colorado You Got Talent. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Country Dog. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Frankie Floyd. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Hollie Cook & Tatanka. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128

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Mary Scholz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

German Speaking Table. All Day. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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Massive Snowflake. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Internet’s Own Boy. 5 p.m. ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium, 1125 18th St., #223, Boulder, 303-7354577.

The Boulder Jam. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

The Ridgelings Kickstarter Launch Show. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303544-0746. Shalom Y’all. 6 p.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Tomm Price and the Stilettos. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Vintage Highway Band. 3 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303499-1444.

Dave Tamkin. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Goodrattle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tyrone Webb paints live. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Nicol Spera. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Web Fundamentals. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Ron LeGualt Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900

Boulder Medical Marijuana Harvest Festival. 9 a.m. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Colorado-Cuba Arts and Dance Festival. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441see EVENTS Page 48

Events Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder Medical Marijuana Harvest Festival. 9 a.m. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Jess Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Reynolds Teen DIY. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Rise & Shine Communikey Brunch with DJ Brandon Brown & Guests. 10:30 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Sacred House Gathers — Yoga & Community Healing. 10 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 12 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303-499-1444. Tyrone Webb paints live. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Monday, October 20 Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Cavani Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. The DBC. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Kaleidoscope Music. 12 a.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Open Javan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Stage. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. The Whale Tales. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Events Boulder Medical Marijuana Harvest Festival. 9 a.m. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 B Pearl St., Boulder. Cinema Program free screening of “Alive Inside.” 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder,

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Rocky Horror Picture Show. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Oct. 25.

Ambition Facing West. Boulder Ensemble Theater Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 2. Mr. Burns. The Catamounts. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 18.

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Dylan Went Electric. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-931-7241. Through Oct. 19. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through Oct. 18.

Seussical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through Nov. 30.

A Second Helping: The Church Basement Ladies Sequel. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 8 Night of the Living Dead. The Bug Theatre, 3564 Navaho St., Denver, 720-984-0781. Through Nov. 1. Dracula. Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Nov. 1.

EVENTS from Page 47 3100. Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303499-1444. Tango Intermediate Drop In Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. The Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: Afro Cuban Rhythms. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Robb Candler Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Trio Con Brio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Events Boulder Folders — Learn Origami. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Boulder Medical Marijuana Harvest Festival. 9 a.m. Helping Hands Herbals, 1021 Pearl St., Boulder. Colorado-Cuba Arts and Dance Festival. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Danza Libre: Explorations in Afro Cuban Dance and Drum. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Danza Libre: Explorations in Afro Cuban Dance and Drum. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Le Nozze di Figaro Encore. 6:30 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek with Author, Dr. Ari Kelman. 7 p.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder.

The David Booker Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303499-1444.

Guest Recital: Michael Lewin. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Tyrone Webb paints live. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Kaleidoscope Music. 12 a.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900.

Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga. 7 p.m. Old Main Chapel, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1030 N. Broadway St., Boulder.

Karaoke hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Michael & Jeanette McPherson. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Mitis. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095.

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Peregrine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

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rom the late 1990s to the early years of the 21st century, some of the best in cinema came out of Iran. Populated with directors like Asghar Farhadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Jafar Panahi, Iran’s postmodern renaissance showed that nothing was safe from the probing gaze of the camera lens. Sadly, this era came to an abrupt end in 2009 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his second term as president of Iran. Challenging cinema was out and these directors found themselves persona non grata. Makhmalbaf, Kiarostami and Farhadi left for other, more understanding countries, but Panahi, possibly the best of the bunch, was left behind. He couldn’t even leave his own home. In 2010, after multiple conflicts and arrests for civil disobedience, Panahi was sentenced to six years of house arrest and a 20-year ban on filmmaking. Panahi, never one to play by the rules, continued practicing his craft, even though his movies would never play in his native land, and could land him a much stricter punishment if he were caught. 2011’s This Is Not a Film — a documentary of sorts — was shot in Panahi’s

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Tehran apartment with a digital camera and iPhone and smuggled out of the country via a pen drive hidden in a cake. The movie shows a man crippled, but it ends with a glimmer of hope, a twinkle in Panahi’s eye and a refusal to go quietly into that night. His follow-up, Closed Curtain, which is playing Oct. 15-18 at The Boedecker Theatre, is that very twinkle. Trying to describe the plot of Closed Curtain is a sticky endeavor, but at its core, it is an autobiographical construct of Panahi post-ban. It begins with a

mostly wordless shot of a screenwriter (Kambuzia Partovi, who also receives a co-director credit) smuggling his canine companion into a deserted seaside home (Panahi’s vacation home on the Caspian shore). The Iranian government has declared dogs impure and forbidden citizens to walk them in public (an actual law), so the writer shuts himself and the dog inside the house. That night, there is a knock at the door. A woman (Maryam Moqadam) and her brother (Hadi Saeedi) appear out of the darkness, and the brother

leaves the girl with the writer. Clearly, they are both being pursued by something, but the brother reveals nothing, offers no answers to the writer’s questions and gives no hint as to who he, or she, is. There is where the logic of Closed Curtain ends, and the mirrors of Panahi begin. Panahi never allows his viewers sure footing as he introduces more characters and forces others to disappear completely, only to show up a few scenes later without explanation. Panahi himself shows up in a sizeable role and the house continues to transform, bouncing back and forth between impenetrable darkness to blinding hot light. In This is Not a Film, Panahi questions the nature of cinema, his role in cinema and the value of that role once cinema has been robbed from him. In Closed Curtain, Panahi finds the answer that he has been looking for all along. Cinema is his role. For Panahi, there is the camera and there is nothing else. As one character tells him, “There is more to life than work. There are other things too.” “Yes...” Panahi replies, “But those things are foreign to me.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

BOYHOOD

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Director Richard Linklater filmed Boyhood over 12 years with the same cast, cinematically charting the rocky terrain of childhood. We take our journey through the eyes of a young boy named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who grows up on screen before our eyes. Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette act as Mason’s parents, and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

A shocking and disturbing look at higher education in the U.S., Ivory Tower examines the many problems facing universities and students who attend them. Filmmaker Andrew Rossi brings to light the crisis looming for these young people, asking, “Is it all worth the cost?” Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

Road to Eden is a documentary that follows Dan Nicols and his band in the fall of 2011 as they travel the American Deep South during the Jewish Festival of Sukkot. Sukkot, for the Gentiles out there, is the last of Three Pilgrimage Festivals, known for being an unreservedly joyful week-long holiday. For Nicols and his band, each town, each day, is a new adventure, a new celebration, even through heartbreaking stories, and the movie as a whole reminds us that we are all traveling together on a road to a better future. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Boyhood will also be shown at the International Film Festival, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 and 11, Muenzinger Auditorium.

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An exploration of aging, loneliness and friendship within the story of a pair of 60-something ex-brothers-in-law on a road trip through Iceland. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

See full review above. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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The first of two versions of the ballet premiered at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra with choreography by Filippo Taglioni and music by JeanMadeleine Schneitzhoeffer. Ultimately, the ballet is a story about the insatiable human desire to find true love. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Documentarian Craig Noble examines how craft brewers are managing to maintain their integrity in the face of exploding popularity and all the increased demand that comes with it. And while one could watch a documentary about craft-brewing all by itself, at this screening, you can do so with food and beer courtesy of BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats, which is turning its October beer dinner into a celebration of food, beer and film with a multicourse meal paired with BRU’s seasonal offerings to go along with the film. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

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MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS A dramatic film on demonic possession, director Jerzy Kawalerowicz places his camera in the figurative and literal position of God, and puts a spin on cliched “black is evil, white is good” symbolism. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS: 2014 With both fiction and documentary, the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 94-minute theatrical program of eight short films from the 2014 edition of the festival. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

WAKING LIFE A movie that speaks to the existential crisis occuring in us all at one point or another — what does it all mean? Created with rotoscoping-style animation, the film creates a trippy experience for viewers as they journey along with a man as he traipses through dreams searching for the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9, IFS at VAC Basement Auditorium. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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and corn. The housemade hot sauce is fantastic, going beyond standard vinegar and hot peppers to incorporate more complex fruit and vegetable flavors. The carrot habanero sauce is especially good, bringing out the golden flavors of the habanero more than the rain of hellfire and regret that the pepper is known for. And then there is the Mexican street corn, which is worth a trip all by itself. Verde chars it on the grill, then dusts the cobs in hot pepper, cojita cheese and a touch of jalapeno crema. You can get an appetizer order for $7, or get a side for $3. Considering the side is two cobs and the appetizer is four, this is a good way to game the system. An even better way is to add two sides to your entree for $3, and make both of them corn. Voila, you just cut the price by more than half like a boss. One thing that sadly missed the mark for this critic was the chips. Verde serves fresh chopped and fried wedges of corn tortilla, and while I appreciate their freshness, the thickness makes them a bit tough to bite into. But if the worst thing one has to say about a place is that their chips are kind of thick, that alone should tell you all you need to know. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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